Sheila Kaye Smith and Mary Webb were the main influences. Gibbons was serialising another Webb book at the time and it reminds me more of Gone to Earth which I like less. KesterWoodseaves is the only literary hero I prefer to Faramir... anyway I digress.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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